@mentallyalex @helplessduck @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak I'm also somewhat aphantasiac, which maybe is why I don't "see" the color, and just sort of feel the association? I also don't usually think in words (unless I'm writing words), it's more like a proprioceptive sense, like the object graph of a system is a limb or something I can't see, but can sense in space. Putting this stuff into words is so trippy and difficult lol
@isaacs @mentallyalex @helplessduck @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak Did you realize you were aphantasic before you heard it described. I didn’t realize other people didn’t see images until I read about it. My synesthesia is the same. It’s a sense of a color and sometimes a taste rather than an actual visual. I can’t see images in my mind, but I can mentally draw their construct, so that I “see them” without an actual visual.
@Pineywoozle @mentallyalex @helplessduck @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak Yeah, same, not at all.
I had gotten confused/concerned looks from people when I tried to relate with them about those weird shapes and colors that happen when there's a sudden noise, and was super excited to learn about synesthesia when I was 12.
But aphantasia, I always just thought "picturing" something in your mind was understood to be a metaphor, until @seldo told me about all the wild stuff he sees while programming.
@isaacs @mentallyalex @helplessduck @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo As an artist I’m actually mildly jealous about that and I legit can’t remember if I had that prior to my head injuries which makes me suspect I probably didn’t.
@Pineywoozle @isaacs @mentallyalex@beige.party @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo
Okay, you know what?
I'm keeping the LSD for myself and all y'all can sit around and talk about it.
...you try to share with people. Christ on sale...
@helplessduck @isaacs @mentallyalex @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo You are a giver… for a duck. And it was generous of you to offer to share the LSD. I just don’t think we require it to get to the same place you do.
@Pineywoozle @isaacs @mentallyalex@beige.party @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo
Right? We totally get off on being withholding. I took most of it yesterday, anyway.
I'm conflicted about the art thing. As an artist, I want to see all the relationships between colors and shapes in a scene, so I can reproduce that. But, I can't bear to think how that would be all the time. I want to be able to shut it off.
@helplessduck @isaacs @mentallyalex @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo I understand what you’re saying, but for me art is kind of amazingly zen. That whole trite one with the universe thing really does exist when you’re creating. I don’t think you’d feel the need to turn it off. It’s not an intrusive thing.(I bet you didn’t see that serious shit coming.)
@Pineywoozle @isaacs @mentallyalex@beige.party @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo
*curtsies* I did not m'lady.
I guess I just like to be able to compartmentalize things? Which is a whole hell of a lot to unbox in itself.
@helplessduck @isaacs @mentallyalex @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo I’d in a book or twelve, duck psychologists are motherfucking expensive these days.
@Pineywoozle @isaacs @mentallyalex@beige.party @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo
You have no fuckin' idea just how expensive...
@helplessduck @isaacs @mentallyalex @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo I’ve known a duck or two, we talk…
@Pineywoozle @isaacs @mentallyalex@beige.party @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo
They're liars.
@helplessduck @isaacs @mentallyalex @UnFitz2 @TazPoltorak @seldo there’s always truth in lies if you know where to look.